different this time, honest

DIFFERENT THIS TIME, HONEST

A kind minion gave me an article idea, bless his pea picking heart. When were the other times I thought the end was nigh and why do I think it is for real this time? I used to joke around, saying The End Is Here, whenever something too good to be true happened. “Child support ends in July, the collapse will happen in August”. That kind of thing. It was waiting for the other shoe to drop. But seriously, I've been very worried twice before. Surprisingly, one WASN'T during the Cold War.

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Prior to 1977, I was too young to worry or even know about the threat of nuclear war. I started out reading fiction, not reference. After that date, we were living right outside Vandenburg Air Force Base, so it would have been over before we knew it. As a young adult I was mostly in the military until just before the Soviet Union fell. And in the military, well, how much can you determine your own destiny? I was either at Target Zero, or destined to be cannon fodder. The times as a civilian I thought one years food was sufficient.

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So, I didn't worry for the next ten years. I had my dozen buckets of wheat and some guns. I was a prepper who thought he was a survivalist, and even was cheeky enough to believe I could write about the subject. To be fair to myself, others seemed to place value in whatever drivel I was vomiting. Then, Y2K reared its ugly mug. This was the first time I was actually really worried, the more I read. The closer the date loomed, the more desperately I stockpiled. Until, just a month or so away, I figured I couldn't prep much any more.

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Yet, it wasn't too much longer past the failed to appear disaster that Peak Oil became a topic of concern. Studying for Y2K woke me up to a more systemic failure issue, and the energy issue was making sense to me. I think I was actually so focused on that, the looming real estate bubble didn't catch my attention immediately. When it did, I was off to the races diligently studying both energy and economics ( my economics studies during the 80's was Austrian, and more a philosophy than anything long term useful ).

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I was even MORE worried than during the run up to Y2K, because the more you know, the more you need to be very afraid. I panicked more, the more I studied. This was WORSE than nuclear war ( in my mind, but at this time I knew too little about human die-offs from climate change, and didn't factor in nuclear winter ), as it hit everyone and everywhere, the lack of energy or a functioning economy. Coming up on Y2K, I moved to Florida specifically for that concern ( Florida in the winter is usually still flip-flop weather, you just don't sweat as much ). Now, 2008, I knew I needed my own land to avoid the issues of the bankers collapse.

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When 2008 DIDN'T spell the end, I was even MORE worried. Why? Because the cheapest rent living in the city had been an RV lot, and you cannot store enough food in an RV. Not for an actual apocalypse. I was also renting a storage spot for the Hippie Bread Van, but I only had so much wheat in there ( it being a V6 ). I knew I wasn't Honest Injun really prepared, and the sword was hanging over my head the entire time. That is why I never let up on prepping like mad until very recently.

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Y2K and 2008 were the two times I moved locations specifically to prep, and also went all out in stockpiling. I was worried and anxious the whole time. I lived like a barbarian to free up every spare dime to supply. What did I do differently this time? Nothing. I was still prepping from a concern of a 2008 complete energy and financial collapse. I did not for one second think fracking was going to be viable. I didn't think, well, 2020 is it. I was ALWAYS thinking this was the last year of normal, ever since 2008.

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This is not to say every year didn't bring extra proof of extra vulnerabilities. It did. Which just poured gasoline on the fire under my ass. As soon as I heard of the September liquidity crisis bail out bleeding into October, I knew we were done financially. And as soon as I read from a if-anything-cautious-with-conclusions source that Fracking Fuel had peaked in production, I knew we were hosed energy wise. The Beer Bug? That was just the fire accelerant.

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I can't say, “it's different this time”, because to me, this isn't “another time”. This is just a continuation of the 2005 Peak Oil, which was a shoe in come 1972 once we confirmed my beautiful boy Hubbert's US Peak Oil. To me, this is more of a sense of wonder that we actually are going to beat the 2030 Olduvai Theory timeline. And, let us not forget my Lizard Brain full volume klaxon alert. I'm just as worried as I was in 1999 and 2007, if not more so. Yet, this time, I'm really, really, full on prepared ( I know, no food production. That was the sacrifice I made in 2008 to gain immediate safety, on a severely limited budget ).

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If I'm prepared enough for Instant Dark Age ( just add food distribution failure ), yet I'm still anxious as hell, to me this is my Lizard Brain telling my Monkey Mind that he is a schmuck and doesn't know what he is talking about and that it is Full Retard Panic time. My Lizard Brain, him I trust. Not so much my hive mind, or anyone else who isn't sharing my danger for my body. Of COURSE I could be wrong. It is assured you always get something wrong, without complete information. And that is okay. I've been wrong before and it hasn't embarrassed me in the slightest. Better egg on your face than no face, after a gaping bullet wound.

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note: Flick Connections has a video on the twenty Netflix apocalypse movies to watch which are apropos during Beer Virus.  HERE .  The ones I've watched that I thought were good: Carriers, How It Ends, Here Alone, Cargo, Bushwick, It Comes At Night, Ravenous, Kingdom and Train To Busan.
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